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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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The Mayflower II, a replica of the ship on which the Pilgrims set sail to America, sits docked in Plymouth Bay.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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One thing is for certain there were MANY Mayflower ships at this time and a distinct lack of formal documented evidence that would enable guaranteed tracking of this most important historic event.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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There is even a Mayflower society for those immigrants of clans who came over on the passenger ships from England, Scotland and Ireland, or other European countries during or after medieval times.
In Jordon, Berkshire at the Quaker Center is a barn said to be the Mayflower ship which in 1620 the Pilgrims sailed to American in.
The Pilgrims left Holland on the Speedwell, a small ship, and sailed to England where they met other Separatists who were ready to sail on the Mayflower, a larger ship that had been used as a trading vessel.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Mayflower Mini Ships Model and Refrig.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Aboard the Mayflower II, costumed actors tell the tale of the brave ship's 66-day voyage from England.
In 1992, the Mayflower II led aprocession of the Tall Ships through the Cape Cod Canal.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The Pilgrims signed it before they disembarked their ship, the Mayflower: In ye name of God, Amen.
The Mayflower, for which the ship of the Pilgrims is named, is Epigea repens.
Draw upon stories of the arrival of the Pilgrims at in 1620 and explain the importance of the Mayflower Compact which they signed before leaving the ship.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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It was at Dartmouth in 1620 that the Mayflower stopped so that repairs to her escort ship, Speedwell, could be undertaken and an inscribed stone at Bayard’s Cove commemorates this.
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